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Tuesday, June 27, 2017

27 June - Blogs I'm Following 2 of 2

[image: new-veritas-video-exposes-cnn-as-fake-news] "Fake news" has been swarming the headlines lately. Now, additinal confirmation of fake news on the part of a major network — CNN — is being exposed by Project Veritas on a hidden camera. The team caught CNN Producer John Bonifield admitting that the Russia-Trump narrative is “mostly b******t right now” and that “we don't have any big giant proof.”

[image: top-climate-alarmist-computer-models-wrong-skeptics-right-on-pause] Count on the Fake News media to ignore a huge admission by a Climategate scientist that there has been no measurable global warming over the past 20 years — something he has previously vociferously denied.

Originally posted on Watts Up With That?: By Andy May I love visiting WUWT and Climate, Etc., but most of the visitors to these sites, like me, are skeptical that the current global warming is dangerous. I’ve often visited the notable alarmist websites, such as skepticalscience.com and realclimate.org, to gain an understanding of why they…

Originally posted on Tallbloke's Talkshop: Tesla Model S – this is the only way you’ll keep warm in one during winter. ? From NyTeknik: Huge hopes tied to electric cars as the solution to automotive climate problem. But the electric car batteries are eco-villains in the production. Several tons of carbon dioxide has been…

Originally posted on NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT: By Paul Homewood ? ? ? ? h/t Gallopingcamel ? ? ? ? ? ? ? I have not seen this documentary about the Little Ice Age by the History Channel. It is well worth a look, even if just for the first 20 minutes…

Originally posted on Science Matters: Behemoth, Canada’s Wonderland, Ontario Behemoth’s bright yellow-and-blue steel stands out against the Ontario landscape. At one point the roller coaster, which opened in 2008, drops 230 feet at a 75-degree angle and hits speeds of 77 mph. Its open-air seating gives every rider a front seat to the action. Roller…

Originally posted on Watts Up With That?: From the “well maybe there was a hiatus after all” walkback department. Even Mann is on board with this paper. By MICHAEL BASTASCH AND DR. RYAN MAUE A scientific consensus has emerged among top mainstream climate scientists that “skeptics” or “lukewarmers” were not long ago derided for suggesting…

*Mike Fabey* *Security, * The USS Ford’s systems will soon be rigorously tested and tweaked before final delivery. The U.S. Navy took delivery in the final day of May of the most advanced aircraft carrier ever designed or built – the CVN 78 USS Gerald R. Ford. Now the tough part begins. No modern warship is ready for combat when the Navy takes charge of the ship. The vessel’s systems must be tested, tweaked and run through a whole set of paces of an entirely more robust nature than many of the often land-based equipment-proving – and finally with a Navy crew that must go throug...more »

*Michael Kugelman* *Politics, Americas* [image: India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi hugs U.S. President Donald Trump as he departures the White House after a visit, in Washington, U.S., June 26, 2017. REUTERS/Carlos Barria] The Indian prime minister’s visit telegraphed a familiar message: The U.S.-India relationship is going places, and fast. There was something both familiar and reassuring about Indian prime minister Narendra Modi’s recent visit to Washington. It was familiar because it was reminiscent of his previous trips here as premier. And at a time when the world has see...more »

Statements from @PressSec on #syria pic.twitter.com/gEqPAf6WBk — Sean Spicer (@PressSec) June 27, 2017 Okay so this was broadcast on cable news last night. (I personally saw it towed the end of the Rachel Maddow Show.) And on the face of it this seems like kind of a crazy way to announce that the president of Syria is about to murder his own people again. Typically this would be addressed through diplomatic channels and the public would only become aware if there were an imminent military response planned by the United States. (And seriously what does "pay a heavy price" even mean?...more »

*(Click on Image to Enlarge)* *Reuters:* *China accuses Indian border guards of crossing into its territory* China has accused Indian border guards of crossing into its territory from the state of Sikkim on India's northeastern border with Tibet, the Chinese foreign and defence ministries have said, complicating an already difficult relationship. Geng Shuang, a spokesman with China's foreign ministry, said Indian guards "obstructed normal activities" by Chinese forces on the border and called on India to withdraw immediately, according to a ministry statement late on Monday. He ...more »

A US-led coalition air strike in Deir Ezzor province, eastern Syria, hit a prison - killing 42 inmates and 15 terrorist guards, according to observation groups *CBS:* *Activists: U.S.-led coalition strike kills dozens of ISIS prisoners* BEIRUT -- An independent group that monitors the war in Syria said Tuesday that a likely U.S.-led coalition airstrike on an ISIS-run jail in the country's east had killed at least 57 people, many of them believed to be civilian prisoners held by the terrorist group. According to the London-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR), which re...more »

BEIRUT, LEBANON (6:10 P.M.) – Over the past 24 hours, the Iraqi Army has initiated a remarkable pincer offensive in the largely ISIS-held Old City neighborhood of Mosul, ultimately looking to cut the tiny Islamic State pocket in two by joining forces at the Al-Sa’ah Roundabout, a key junction in the heart of the densely […] Source: AMN - Al-Masdar News | المصدر نيوز

BEIRUT, LEBANON (4:55 P.M.) – The U.S. regime has recently seen chemical weapons activity at the Shay’rat Airbase in the Homs Governorate, the Pentagon claimed, as reported by Matt Lee of the Associated Press. This latest claim by the Pentagon comes just hours after the U.S. State Department issued a warning to the Syrian President, […] Source: AMN - Al-Masdar News | المصدر نيوز

BEIRUT, LEBANON (4:00 P.M.) – Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad made his first visit to the Russian modified Hmaymim Airbase in the Latakia Governorate’s Jableh District this afternoon, a local military source reported. President Assad was seen meeting with military personnel and touring the base earlier this afternoon: Assad’s visit to the Hmaymim Airbase in the […] Source: AMN - Al-Masdar News | المصدر نيوز

DAMASCUS, SYRIA (2:30 P.M.) – On Tuesday morning, militants of the so-called “Islamic State” undertook an attack towards positions held by Syrian Arab Army (SAA) in Rashidiyah district of Deir Ezzor city. Being well-prepared for the assault, SAA soldiers were able to repulse the infiltration attempt killing 5 jihadists in the process and forcing the […] Source: AMN - Al-Masdar News | المصدر نيوز

*Photo:* Copies of the passports were discovered by Syrian Defence Forces in newly liberated neighbourhoods of Raqqa *Daily Mail: **ISIS fighters are given 'passports to paradise' in a desperate bid to convince them they will be rewarded with virgins in the afterlife* * Copies of the passports were discovered by Syrian Defence Forces in Raqqa * ISIS handed out documents reading 'passports to heaven' to motivate fighters * Fighters believe they will be rewarded with paradise if they die protecting ISIS * Front of passport says 'No God but Allah, Muhammed is the Messenger of God' I...more »

*CNN:* *Raqqa: Secret video shows ISIS losing chokehold on its 'capital'* (CNN)At first, the video shows a seemingly normal urban life -- men and women shopping in the streets, with steady traffic passing by them. A closer look shows this is a city under threat -- tarpaulins along streets hide the movements of fighters from surveillance drones and sandbags outside buildings might offer some protection from a blast from the sky or the ground. For this is not any normal city -- this is Raqqa, the heart of ISIS's attempt to build its own state or caliphate. And it is crumbling. Just...more »

*France 24: **Exclusive: IS group's armoured drones attack from the skies in battle for Raqqa* The Islamic State (IS) group is using drones rigged with munitions in the battle for the eastern Syrian city of Raqqa, a FRANCE 24 team inside the jihadist group’s highly dangerous self-proclaimed capital discovers. While entering Raqqa from the eastern side, past dusty, desolate neighbourhoods, a nearby explosion briefly rocks the armored vehicle carrying a FRANCE 24 team and fighters with the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF). The coalition of Kurdish and Arab fighters battling the IS gr...more »

Comparison of June 24 vs June 26 shows latest advances by Iraqi forces in Old City (Ninewa Media Center) Mosul was still recovering from the surprise attack by Islamic State sleeper cells in three liberated areas of west Mosul. On June 25 IS elements attacked Tanak, Yarmouk and Rajam al-Hadeed in the western section of west Mosul. There were only a few fighters, maybe20 or more, but they were able to sow a huge amount of chaos. They set fire to cars and buildings, and led to hundreds of people to flee. The Golden Division was called in to kill and capture the insurgents. Yarmoukwa...more »

The White House 'warning' about an imminent Syrian chemical attack is phoney and not intended seriously. It is a panicked reaction to Seymour Hersh's exposure of the truth behind the alleged chemical attack in Khan Sheikhoun which appeared a few hours earlier in Welt. The post White House ‘warning’ of ‘imminent threat of chemical attack in Syria’ is phoney. Here’s why appeared first on The Duran.

Mad dash to get the new evidence in on time to charge Areios Pagos President Vasiliki Thanou officially for her role in the continuing cover up of crimes of Larisa court and in such a way as to set me up for a potentially lethal penalty. She retires officially on Friday, June 30th. I want […]

A molecular biology journal has retracted a 2017 cancer paper only two months after it appeared online, after the corresponding author notified the journal about possible data manipulation. According to the notice, Chunsun Fan, from Qidong Liver Cancer Institute & Qidong People’s Hospital in China, requested the retraction after finding “signs of data manipulation” in […] The post Cancer paper retracted after author discovers signs of data manipulation appeared first on Retraction Watch.

Courtesy of Mediaite: *Tomi Lahren has starred in her first ad for the pro-Trump nonprofit Great America Alliance, which the YouTube star joined after her firing from TheBlaze over her comments on abortion. * *Lahren, who spun shouting into a camera about liberal snowflakes into a popular video series for Glenn Beck’s website, stars in a Great America Alliance ad entitled “Witch Hunt,” which targets the current independent investigation into ties between the Trump campaign and Russia. * *“What does the Washington establishment independent investigation look like?” Lahren starts,...more »

*TUESDAY, JUNE 27, 2017Part 2—The language of corporate crime:* We met Russell Mokhiber in the fall of 1994. Displaying admirable prescience, Mokhiber attended our award-winning show, Material World, at the Washington Improv. Later in the run, he returned for additional edification, Ralph Nader and Joan Claybrook in tow. The upshot? Among the three major contenders in Campaign 2000, only George W. Bush had failed to laugh—and of course to *learn*—at the award-winning exposition! Who is Russell Mokhiber? Then, as now, he was one of Washington's leading chroniclers of "corporate ...more »

*Washington Post: **Mattis: After Raqqa, the Syrian battlefield will only get more complicated* MUNICH, Germany — As the fight against the Islamic State moves beyond its de facto capital in Raqqa, the Pentagon is readying itself for an increasingly complex battlefield in northern Syria, where U.S.-backed forces, pro-Syrian government troops and Russian jets will likely all be fighting near one another. Speaking to reporters on his way to Germany on Monday to meet with European allies, Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis spoke broadly about the U.S. military’s future operations agains...more »

Strings 2017 is talking place in Tel Aviv, Israel this week. The talks may be watched at The Strings 2017 YouTube channel I hope that the TRF readers will increase the number of views. The most watched video so far has fewer than 140 views, somewhat less than 3 billion views of the Gangnam Style. ;-) On Wednesday 5 pm, there will be a talk by Andy Strominger and Marika Taylor titled "How you can write a talk promoting feminism, reverse racism, and similar garbage, present it at the annual Strings 2017 conference, and make everyone pretend that everything is alright even though ...more »

(Natural News) Back in March 2013, Whole Foods Market made a big decision that, even though it was still a long way off at the time, was an answer to overwhelming consumer demand. The company announced that, beginning in 2018, every item sold in its stores would be accurately labeled to indicate the presence of

By Dr. Mercola Children and adults injured or killed by vaccines face a long uphill battle when filing for compensation with the U.S. vaccine injury compensation program (VICP), better known as “vaccine court.” American war veterans injured by vaccines face even grimmer prospects, as veterans appear to be routinely denied benefits for vaccine-related injuries. Part

At 53, Courteney Cox is ready to talk about the past. But, it’s because she feels better than she ever has: her inner and outer health and beauty are finally in sinc, “Hollywood makes it hard; this business makes it harder. I grew up thinking appearance was the most important thing. That as long as I

(Editor’s Note: About 10 min in there is some foul language but it gets worse after that so please take care if you are watching with children present.) The video below is full of holes, half-truths, and misrepresentations of the truth about vaccines and their safety. But it’s important to watch so you remember the mentality

*Gary Hawke* *Security, Asia* Useful parts of the TPP can be uplifted and transplanted into other agreements. Will the work that went into negotiating the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) go to waste? There are two approaches the remaining members can take. Useful parts of the TPP can be uplifted and transplanted into other agreements. Or the trade agreement can be seen as a sleeping beauty — or better yet, a modern woman who needs no prince but who will wake up and get on with it. The TPP cannot be revived as drafted. The agreement cannot come into force unless ratified within ...more »

*Stephan Haggard* *Security, Asia* The strategy of maximum pressure and engagement has quickly hit predictable roadblocks. An apparent outcome of the Mar-a-Lago summit between US President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping was renewed commitment to rolling back North Korea’s nuclear and missile programs. Trump muted his aggressive rhetoric towards China, particularly on economic issues. In return, China promised to pull North Korea back to the negotiating table — but is it possible to keep such a promise? As with most presidential turnovers, Trump originally took gre...more »

*Seth Cropsey* *Security, Asia* If the Trump administration allows Otto Warmbier's to go unanswered, other hostages are likely to suffer similar fates. Last Thursday Otto Warmbier was buried. He was 22, a promising young man at the beginning of what would have been a long and productive life surrounded by a loving family and friends. The North Korean government seized him while he was with a group of other student visitors, charged him with stealing propaganda, imprisoned him, and then caused his death by torture. If the Trump administration allows his murder to go unanswered ...more »

The first iPhone was more a hand-held computer than anything else. AP Photo/Jason E. Miczek When the iPhone emerged in 2007, it came with all the promise and pomp of a major Steve Jobs announcement, highlighting its user interface and slick design as key selling points. We know now that the iPhone transformed the mobile phone business, the internet economy and, in many ways, society as a whole. But technically speaking, the iPhone was not very innovative. Apple CEO Steve Jobs introduces the first iPhone. Its software and the interface idea were based on the iPod, which was already ...more »

What can a single person's flu infection tell you about how the virus changes around the world? CC BY-SA Evolution is usually very slow, a process of change that takes thousands or millions of years to see. But for influenza, evolution is fast – and deadly. Flu viruses change rapidly to escape the body’s defenses. Every few years, new variants of flu emerge and cause epidemics around the world. Controlling the spread of flu means dealing with this ongoing evolution. Each year, experts from the World Health Organization (WHO) must make their best guess about how the virus will chang...more »

*it's right here in our own backyard.* I'm not a big user of Twitter, but I know many people do depend on it for information. Lila Rose is the founder and president of *Live Action*, a human rights, pro-life organization dedicated to ending abortion and inspiring a culture that respects and protects life. Lila founded Live Action when she was 15 years old. Listen to her tell Tucker Carlson how Twitter is denying their right to free speech by refusing to run their ads. According to Planned Parenthood’s IRS Form 990, president Cecile Richards pocketed a whopping $957,952 in annual t...more »

Members of the Iraqi Army are photographed with an Islamic State flag, claimed after fighting with Islamic State militants in western Mosul, Iraq, June 26, 2017. *VOA: **Islamic State Tries to Regroup as Mosul Losses Mount* WASHINGTON — With U.S.-backed Iraqi forces close to ending the Islamic State group's grip on Mosul, security forces in neighboring Iraqi provinces are increasingly concerned about extremists moving into their areas. Kirkuk, Diyala and Salahuddin provinces have recently witnessed a surge in IS activities, and local security forces fear possible terror attacks by ...more »

[image: scotus-will-hear-colorado-wedding-cake-case] In a surprise move, the U.S. Supreme Court has announced it will hear a case involving a baker who refused to bake a cake to celebrate a same-sex wedding.

The Drs. Wolfson love trying new things and new products. Some might call it an obsession. We call it, Trying To Keep our Family and Patients Healthy. We combed through products on Amazon to support our mission for health and wellness. And audiences at our teaching engagements and our Facebook followers love it. We are […] The post What We Use – How The Drs. Wolfson Live Naturally appeared first on The Drs. Wolfson.

History between the United States and Iran has been fraught with violence going all the way back to the early 1950s when the CIA "assisted" in the removal of Iran's popular Prime Minister, Mohammad Mossadegh. From recent remarks made by the current Trump Administration's foreign affairs spokesperson, Rex Tillerson, we can see that little has changed in the intervening six decade period. Mohammad Mossadegh became the Prime Minister of Iran in 1951 and took a stand against the British-owned oil company, Anglo-Iranian Oil Company (now part of British Petroleum), that had made huge ...more »

*WTOL/CNN:* *Drone video shows war's toll on once-thriving Mosul* MOSUL, IRAQ (CNN) - New drone video from Iraq shows desperate civilians fleeing completely devastated areas of Mosul, the site of biblical Nineveh. The footage shows the old city in the western part of Mosul, once Iraq’s second-largest city. Shown is the massive destruction as a result of the ongoing battle against ISIS. Mosul was once the terror group's stronghold in Iraq. In 2014, ISIS leveled the tomb of the biblical prophet Jonah. A coalition spokesman says only a few hundred ISIS fighters are left in the city....more »

*SKY News*: *Iraqi troops 'just days' from capturing Mosul Old City* Vicious fighting has left both sides exhausted and trapped civilians in crossfire, but the end could be near for IS. The fighting is so close now it is within throwing distance. Iraqi soldiers hiding in the walled back yard of a house in Mosul's Old City take a few steps and chuck their grenades across the street. At the gate machine gunners fire at Islamic State positions. Helicopter gun ships attack from the air, only withdrawing when another volley of artillery shells and missiles crash into buildings. The tw...more »

*Reuters: **Iraqi forces set sight on Old City riverside, PM sees Mosul victory soon* Iraqi forces on Tuesday pushed towards the river side of Mosul's Old City, their key target in the eight-month campaign to capture Islamic State's de-facto capital, and Iraq's prime minister predicted victory very soon. Iraqi forces, battling up to 350 militants dug in among civilians in the Old City, said federal police had dislodged IS insurgents from the Ziwani mosque and were only a few days away from ousting militants completely from the Old City. "The victory announcement will come in a ve...more »

Recent US statements threatening to attack the Syrian government have the mark of Israeli meddling written all over them. The post US threats to Syria are Israelgate NOT Russiagate appeared first on The Duran.

Statement from Leonard for the Oglala CommemorationGreetings Sisters, Brothers, friends and supporters.Well, here we are, another year, another memorial. After 42 yrs this does not get any easier. It seems as if you get lost for words. At times I feel as if it has all been for nothing, but I know that's just weakness speaking. The struggle is never for nothing. So many of our children,

Saturday evening Bernie was in Pittsburgh Saturday for a Don’t Take Away Our Health Care rally at the Convention Center. He addressed Republican Pat Toomey directly. I hope he takes the same message to Ted Cruz in Texas and to Jeff Flake in Arizona, two Republicans up for reelection in 2018. (Dean Heller has already said he’s voting no.) Sunday he brought the message to Rob Portman in Columbus and then to Shelley Moore Capito in Charleston. Listen to his 27 minutes speech above; you can’t hear his points enough. “This so-called health care bill passed in the House last month is th...more »

*This School Board Leader Tried to Rig a Public Forum in Favor of Transgender Advocates. That’s Unconstitutional* Stacking the deck at the casino makes for bad feelings among friends. Things get more serious when you’re a government official stacking the deck at public forums with speakers in favor of your personal political views. That not only makes for bad public policy—it violates the First Amendment. The Prince William County Virginia School Board convened last Wednesday to vote on a proposed rule that would undermine the principle of student privacy between the sexes. It wou...more »

Overturning Obamacare is by far the most significant thing congressional Republicans and President Trump have tried to do this year. We're frequently told that this is a high priority for GOP elected officials because every Republican ran on repealing and replacing Obamacare, and base voters will punish Republican elected officials if they don't make good on this promise. So you'd think the repeal effort would be front-page news on right-wing sites. In fact, it's barely visible on those sites. Here's the current front page at FoxNews.com. I've circled the most prominent story on t...more »

*How Environmental Groups Are Responding to Trump’s ‘Solar Wall’ Pitch* *I suspect that this was mainly a tease on Trump's part* President Donald Trump’s idea of putting solar panels on his long-promised border wall hasn’t gained a lot of support among top environmental lobbying groups—even though the organizations have long backed solar power as a key renewable energy. “This way, Mexico will have to pay much less money,” @POTUS says. “The problem with talking about solar panels on Trump’s border wall is that it’s science fiction,” Travis Nichols, a spokesman for Greenpeace, a li...more »

On our 100th birthday, Michael Valpy writes that "we fell in love with ourselves." But, on our 150th birthday, our mood has changed: A recent exploration by polling firm EKOS Research reports that the importance of many long-time salient symbols of our sense of nationhood is dramatically eroding. Canadians report that the significance to their national identity of the beaver, the maple leaf, the flag, “O Canada,” hockey — yes, hockey — the Grey Cup, Parliament Hill, cultural diversity, tolerance, official bilingualism, Canada Day, Remembrance Day and the RCMP have all declined. F...more »

Courtesy of AP: *The AP scrutinized the outcomes of all 435 U.S. House races and about 4,700 state House and Assembly seats up for election last year using a new statistical method of calculating partisan advantage designed to detect potential political gerrymandering. * *The analysis found four times as many states with Republican-skewed state House or Assembly districts than Democratic ones. Among the two dozen most populated states that determine the vast majority of Congress, there were nearly three times as many with Republican-tilted U.S. House districts. * *Traditional bat...more »

An F-15E Strike Eagle disconnects from a KC-10 Extender after receiving fuel over Iraq, Dec. 25, 2016. (U.S. Air Force photo/Senior Airman Tyler Woodward) *Military.com*:* General: US Pilots Made the Call to Shoot Down Syrian Aircraft* SOUTHWEST ASIA -- A U.S. Air Force general confirmed American pilots made the call to shoot down Syrian aircraft on three separate missions this month and defended their actions as self-defense. On June 18, an F/A-18E Super Hornet conducted the U.S. military's first air-to-air kill involving a manned aircraft in nearly two decades when it downed a ...more »

[image: are-illinois-and-puerto-rico-our-future] Across the West, social welfare states are threatened by falling revenues, taxpayer flight, rising debt as a share of GDP, sinking bond ratings and proliferating defaults.

*Robert Beckhusen* *Security, * Raytheon tests helicopter-borne laser pod. The thrust of the U.S. military’s laser weapon tests have focused on the sea, on land and aboard fixed-wing aircraft. You need a lot of power to generate a beam capable of burning through a target, which limits where you can stick a laser. But they can work on helicopters, too. Raytheon recently tested a high-energy laser weapon attached to an AH-64 Apache helicopter gunship Raytheon claims it’s the first time a “fully integrated” laser weapon system—specifically, integrated with Raytheon’s Multi-Spectral...more »

(RT) Russia has slammed Washington’s threats against the Syrian government following a recent White House statement alleging that President Bashar Al-Assad’s forces are preparing to use chemical weapons. “I am not aware of any information or threat of using chemical weapons,” Russian President Vladimir Putin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov told journalists on Tuesday. Earlier, White House […] Source: AMN - Al-Masdar News | المصدر نيوز

DAMASCUS, SYRIA (1:30 P.M.) – Central Military Media affiliated with the Lebanese Hezbollah movement published a video footage of recent advances by Syrian Army and allied paramilitary units, with close air support by Russian Air Force, in southeastern Syria en route to Deir Ezzor. The video demonstrates several episodes of government forces’ operation which resulted […] Source: AMN - Al-Masdar News | المصدر نيوز

BEIRUT, LEBANON (11:30 A.M.) – The Islamic State (ISIL) is on the verge of suffering several major setbacks across the northern region of Syria, as both government and Kurdish forces swiftly advance in the Al-Raqqa and Aleppo governorates. While the liberation of Raqqa City will no doubt be a demoralizing loss for ISIL, this battle […] Source: AMN - Al-Masdar News | المصدر نيوز

BEIRUT, LEBANON (10:55 A.M.) – The Al-Qaeda lined rebels received a big boost from the Israeli Air Force these last 72 hours, as the latter has carried out at least three different attacks against the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) in the Golan Heights region of Al-Quneitra. With the Syrian Air Force grounded, the jihadist rebels […] Source: AMN - Al-Masdar News | المصدر نيوز

BEIRUT, LEBANON (10:30 A.M.) – An Iraqi police officer saved dozens of lives, Monday, when he blocked the path of a suicide bomber that was attempting to enter a crowded mosque in the Musayeb District of Babel. The officer hugged the suicide bomber to prevent him from entering the mosque, but not before the terrorist […] Source: AMN - Al-Masdar News | المصدر نيوز

Syria responds to false allegations from the United States that American actors cite as the pretext for an attack on Syria. The post SYRIAN GOVERNMENT: We have never used chemical weapons appeared first on The Duran.

If America cannot be talked down using diplomacy, American aircraft and missiles must be shot down using Russian military power. The post Russia must militarily respond to any American attack on Syria appeared first on The Duran.

America claims that Syria is about to conduct a chemical attack on its own people despite Syria having zero ability and zero motive to do so. America further promises a heavy handed response to something which has not happened and could not happen. The post America prepares to attack Syrian government–false flag imminent appeared first on The Duran.

*Kris Osborn* *Security, * U.S. Air Force weapons loaders say the current rotation of attacks against ISIS, from this past January forward, has generated fast-growing demand for more APKWS rockets. *Unlike 100-pound, tank-killing Hellfire Missiles, APKWS rockets are well suited to attack smaller targets, such as groups of ISIS fighters. It is well documented that ISIS often deliberately blends in with civilians to thwart US Coalition attacks. Such a phenomenon underscores the merits of smaller, precision weaponry which can isolate enemy targets while avoiding damage to nearby ci...more »

From Jenna Orkin Theresa May offers EU citizens right to continue living and working in the UK Police are searching far fewer cars in states that have legalized marijuana U.S. Army Lost Track of $1 Billion Worth of Weapons and Equipment: Report (last month) A group of New York City ad employees are baiting Planned Parenthood's opponents with a fake petition Pictures From Arizona's Heatwave: "Everything Is Literally Melting" Assange Outlines The Six Reasons "Why The Democratic Party Is Doomed" First India Bans Cash, Now It's Targeting Gold Italian Taxpayers To Foot €17 Billion B...more »

"Everything ends, and Everything matters. Everything matters not in spite of the end of you and all that you love, but because of it. Everything is all you've got…and after Everything is nothing. So you were wise to welcome Everything, the good and the bad alike, and cling to it all. Gather it in. Seek the meaning in sorrow and don't ever turn away, not once, from here until the end. Because it is all the same, it is all unfathomable, and it is all infinitely preferable to the one dreadful alternative." - Ron Currie Jr.

"For me the world is weird because it is stupendous, awesome, mysterious, unfathomable; my interest has been to convince you that you must assume responsibility for being here, in this marvelous world, in this marvelous desert, in this marvelous time. I want to convince you that you must learn to make every act count, since you are going to be here for only a short while, in fact, too short for witnessing all the marvels of it." - Carlos Castaneda

*"How to Really Make America Great Again"* by Bill Bonner "Today, a simple proposal for making America great again. But first an update on our recent trip to Ireland. When we left you yesterday, we were visiting our headquarters in the town of Portlaw in County Waterford, Ireland, where we have become the biggest employer. Portlaw is not a fancy town. It is plain, modest and tidy, with rows of small factory-worker houses - most of them stuccoed and painted much like the old industrial bedrooms of Baltimore. In the teashop, the only place to get a hot sandwich, we noticed all the s...more »

US Army / 1st Lt. Veronica Aguila *Washington Times:* *After Obama’s bad deal, American Black Hawks will replace Russian helicopters for Afghan air force* The Donald Trump Pentagon, in so many words, is saying that the Obama administration’s decision to waive punitive sanctions and buy combat helicopters from Russia was a bad deal. The Pentagon’s first congressionally required report on Afghanistan under President Trump says the Russian Mi-17 chopper has proved a failure in the long war and will be phased out in favor of American-made UH-60 Black Hawks. The Obama administration ca...more »

The American Medical Association does not want a vaccine safety commission (as promised by President Trump during the election.) They are quite content with their industry based system of checks and imbalances. Read the full letter at the end of...

Eric Trump has a fascist haircut. This cannot possibly be unintentional. pic.twitter.com/9mqUbwENqQ — Ali Gharib (@Ali_Gharib) June 25, 2017 As the Washington Post pointed out back in November, this haircut is extremely popular with those of a certain alt-right sensibility: *Young white-nationalism enthusiasts leaving a recent conference in Washington, D.C., where several of them performed a Nazi salute. * *The same haircut. The exact same haircut. * It is the same haircut sported by white supremacist Richard Spencer. As well as the Hitler Youth of the 40's. Yeah but that's just...more »

[image: Tetyana Obukhanych proves unvaccinated children pose no risk] The immediate take home is that legistlating vaccination is ineffective and wrong headed. Worse, the potential of a negative reaction is not low at all. It easily approaches one percent and has included serious and permanent damage. This is a risk that society itself cannot accept once understood. And we have alternative strategies as well. The commercial solution is a sedge hammer that maximizes profits and also produces maximum dangers. It is also forgotten that the best defense against all disease happen...more »

I am going to go a lot further. While blamed on excess nitrogen fertilizer, I suspect that the continental dead zones that have popped up come from Glyphosate. I have already fingered it for two other continental problems. 1 Amphibian die off. 2 Drop in male fertility Now we have: 3 Collapse of Great Barrier Reef. 4 Inshore dead zones and fishery collapses. So prove me wrong children. This is well enough supported by the meta statistics involved and must be carefully studied. We really do not thrive on toxic jellyfish. . *Studies Link Monsanto’s Glyphosat...more »

What has well begun is the weaning of the world from all forms of fossil fuels. US surge production has finally capped the market and that will not end soon. After all we have another 2 million barrels behind pipeline construction contracts now freeing up. As i have extensively posted, we know how to provide energy drawn directly from 'Dark Matter' This can roll out virtually overnight. Yet even without that our battery technology is ripe to provide a huge efficiency boost to all our energy use and will likely cut oil demand hugely on a global scale. *US Oil Production...more »

This short item so totally describes the pride of the stone mason and all that fits well into the time of the Bronze Age in particular when rock fitting became quite practical. Recall that prior to bronze stone saws, shaping required rock pounding. This worked but was never easy. Thus as in Peru only small and rare structures were assembled. After the Bronze Age, we slowly transitioned to using various mortars and that finally produced cement. Thus this item is surely Bronze Age. I put in this image from Gotland which is not the first thing that one thinks of. . . *CH...more »

RAYTHEON *The Drive*: *"Laser Apache" Has Successfully Zapped Targets On White Sands Missile Range* *This is a major breakthrough in both tactical laser development and rotary-wing air warfare.* We reported on the concept and test program over a year ago, and now it has finally happened—a AH-64 Apache equipped with a tactical high-energy laser (HEL) successfully took out targets on the White Sands Missile Range. The test is a major breakthrough in directed energy weapons and rotary-wing air warfare to say the least. Above all else it is a glimpse of what's to come on the battlef...more »

Thanks to Nancy Hokkanen for sharing this study that looks at both sides of the vaccine debate - from Virginia Tech. http://vtnews.vt.edu/articles/2017/06/bi-vaccinesentiment.html Their latest research, published in the journal Vaccine, attempts to break down the ideas that are most closely...

Which news sites and bloggers do you trust? *We think that the trustworthy folks are those who support some of the following ideas:* *1.* Venice, Florida, is one of the keys to understanding 9 11. MadCowNews by Daniel Hopsicker. *2.* The Obama regime organised the Arab Spring. INVASION OF NORTH AFRICA. *3.* Victor Rothschild had strong influence over MI5, MI6, Churchill, Thatcher and Heath. ROTHSCHILD, CHURCHILL, BURGESS / HOMOSEXUAL BLACKMAIL / Rothschild 'spied as the Fifth Man' *4. *Trump has links to ISIS. Trump's Indonesian Allies In Bed With ISIS-Backed Militia ...more »

In the near future, nanotechnology administered into the bloodstream can sync with computer apps to augment the human genome. A new law mandating and regulating this once elective procedure meets resistance from hacktivists who are conspiring to thwart the impending roll-out of “Nano version 2.0.”

Ossie Michelin of North West River had a photo he took during the Muskrat Falls demonstrations in 2016 and a photo he took in New Brunswick in 2013 at an anti-fracking blockade chosen for the exhibit. “They were taken three years and three days apart and are both photos of indigenous women defending their water,” Michelin told the Labradorian. “It's telling the Canadian Museum of Human Rights recognizes that these two women are defending their human rights. They're standing up to human rights not just for themselves but for the future.” Michelin has known they were selected of the ...more »

"I want you to always hold your head up and follow your dreams wherever they take you. Don't you ever listen to the people out to hurt you or make you cry. Listen to your heart and be better than them. No one gets ahead by hurting others. The only real peace anyone will ever have is the one that comes from within. Live your life on your own terms and make it a happy life. Always. That's what's important.” - Sherrilyn Kenyon

*"Mind and Heart"* "Unaccountably we are alone forever alone and it was meant to be that way, it was never meant to be any other way– and when the death struggle begins the last thing I wish to see is a ring of human faces hovering over me– better just my old friends, the walls of my self, let only them be there. I have been alone but seldom lonely. I have satisfied my thirst at the well of my self and that wine was good, the best I ever had, and tonight sitting staring into the dark I now finally understand the dark and the light and everything in between. Peace of mind and heart arriv...more »

Will there be a formal ‘Alien’ announcement? I doubt so. My understanding is that the unveiling will come in the form of a ‘Alien Invasion’ very likely in the midst of a a nuclear WW3. This is the ‘Good Aliens’ Satanic HOAX! Fallen angels (and the Nephilim) kicked out of heaven will appear as ‘Good […]

*Popular Mechanics:** Britain's Biggest Warship Finally Sets Sail* With "four acres of sovereign territory," the HMS Queen Elizabeth will launch U.S. F-35Bs during its first years of service. The HMS Queen Elizabeth, Britain's biggest warship ever, set sail for the first time today, three years after the U.K. decommissioned its last carrier, the HMS Illustrious, in 2014. The Royal Navy calls it "four acres of sovereign territory, deployable across the globe to serve the United Kingdom." At 65,000 tons and 920 feet, the Queen Elizabeth is a giant compared to the Illustrious, which...more »

*Keep Pelosi* I agree with many that Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) is doing a wonderful job as House Minority Leader. She needs to be retained and the strident calls for her replacement by certain malcontents need to be crushed. Anyone who disagrees with me is a misogamist, is against gay rights, and may also be a racist because Pelosi is a member of...a race. They also must hate old people (Pelosi at age 77, showing some signs of dementia) if they want Nancy Pelosi out of government. She's not even as old as Joe (Slow Joe) Biden, who is 74, and has been a candidate for a nursing home ...more »

State Department officials involved in coordinating such announcements said they were caught completely off guard by the warning. The post CENTCOM officials have “no idea” about White House claim that “Syria is planning chemical weapons” appeared first on The Duran.

Nikki Haley pre-warns Assad, Russia and Iran about a chemical attack which has not yet happened. The post US Ambassador to UN, Nikki Haley pre-blames Assad, Russia, and Iran for a future chemical weapons attack in Syria appeared first on The Duran.

Michael Flynn intervened on behalf of an FBI Special Agent, Robyn Gritz, who had accused McCabe and other top FBI officials of sexual discrimination. The post Report surfaces that Michael Flynn investigation was an FBI personal vendetta for sexual discrimination charges appeared first on The Duran.

In wake of story retraction, CNNMoney exec editor sends memo to staff mandating all "Russia-related content" must be cleared by him or VP pic.twitter.com/2Y6QMZj1h5 — Jon Passantino (@passantino) June 25, 2017 *The Hill:* *CNN imposing new rules on Russia stories* CNN is reportedly implementing strict new rules for the network's stories regarding Russia. CNNMoney executive editor Rich Barbieri sent out an email Saturday regarding the network's new rules after CNN a day earlier issued a retraction on one of its stories. "No one should publish any content involving Russia without ...more »

*New York Times*: *President Michel Temer of Brazil Is Charged With Corruption* RIO DE JANEIRO — President Michel Temer was charged with corruption by Brazil’s prosecutor general late Monday. He was accused of taking a $152,000 bribe via an intermediary, an act that, according to the prosecutor general, Rodrigo Janot, “helped to compromise the image of the Federal Republic of Brazil.” Coming just days after a poll showed his approval rating at 7 percent — the lowest of any Brazilian president in nearly 30 years — the charge increased pressure on Mr. Temer’s rickety presidency, wh...more »

U.S. Department of State in unprecedented move wiped out reports which gave a comprehensive analysis of People’s Mujahedin of Iran. (Washington, D.C., United States) – U.S. Department of State in unprecedented move wiped out reports which gave a comprehensive analysis of People’s Mujahedin of Iran – an organization which uses terrorism to overthrow Iranian establishment, […] Source: AMN - Al-Masdar News | المصدر نيوز

DAMASCUS, SYRIA (7:20 A.M.) – On Monday, tank crews stood face-to-face against each other in the desert between Homs and Deir Ezzor as the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) secured a string of rapid encroachments upon ISIS-held territory near the T2 Airbase. During the clashes, at least one SAA tank was knocked out by a AGS-17 […] Source: AMN - Al-Masdar News | المصدر نيوز

DAMASCUS, SYRIA (6:50 A.M.) – Not long ago, the US military issued a brief statement in which it threatened to bomb the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) again if it were to carry out a chemical attack. Remarkably, the US declined to specify where such an attack might happen or was being prepared. Full statement on […] Source: AMN - Al-Masdar News | المصدر نيوز

DAMASCUS, SYRIA (6:20 A.M.) – In celebration of Eid, Bashar Al-Assad made a surprise visit to the countryside of Hama where he drove through several towns to meet up with wounded Syrian soldiers and their family members. To avoid unwanted suspision, the Syrian President drove through military checkpoints in a regular civilian car, but nevertheless […] Source: AMN - Al-Masdar News | المصدر نيوز

One consequence of electing the popular vote loser is that the official winners act as if they have a mandate for the most extreme version of their policies. Thus, we have proposed legislation, the misleadingly titled Better Care Reconciliation Act, that will not only roll back Obamacare's expansion of Medicaid, but impose further large cuts on the program in addition. In total, the Medicaid cuts will come to $772 billion through 2026. As a result primarily of ending the individual mandate, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) estimates that 15 million fewer people will be insured ...more »

White House *Von Seymour M. Hersh, Die Welt:* *Trump‘s Red Line* *President Donald Trump ignored important intelligence reports when he decided to attack Syria after he saw pictures of dying children. Seymour M. Hersh investigated the case of the alleged Sarin gas attack.* On April 6, United States President Donald Trump authorized an early morning Tomahawk missile strike on Shayrat Air Base in central Syria in retaliation for what he said was a deadly nerve agent attack carried out by the Syrian government two days earlier in the rebel-held town of Khan Sheikhoun. Trump issued ...more »

[image: christian-school-ordered-to-stop-teaching-offensive-bible] A Christian school in Canada has been ordered by authorities to stop teaching parts of the Bible — specifically, those parts deemed to be “offensive” and, therefore, in violation of the Alberta “human rights” act.

Former Attorney General Loretta Lynch could be jailed for up to ten years if found guilty of misconduct. The post Obama Attorney General Loretta Lynch could get 5-10 years in prison for “misconduct in office” appeared first on The Duran.

Originally posted on Watts Up With That?: Ooops, looks like those “saving the planet” Tesla snobs just got their eco-ride de-pimped Image from Tesla’s website From NyTeknik: h/t to Don Shaw (translated) Huge hopes have been tied to electric cars as the solution to automotive CO2 climate problem. But it turns out the the electric car…

Originally posted on Climate Etc.: by Judith Curry Why real nobodies are more powerful than repressed somebodies. The U.S. first tweeting President has upended our perceptions on the appropriate method for a President communicate. Millions of people are perplexed and horrified by President Trump’s tweets. Stepping back, Trump is the first President who has grasped…

Originally posted on Watts Up With That?: Guest Commentary by Kip Hansen ? The New York Times has set a new standard of scientific misrepresentation in this front page title to the latest climate change consensus salvo from Justin Gillis. On the front page of the online edition of the NY Times for 26 June…

Originally posted on Watts Up With That?: Guest post by David Middleton Why would anyone care what “environmentalists” have to say about potential Arctic oil revenue? I only care because their “reasoning” is both fun and easy to ridicule. Environmentalists Say Arctic Drilling Revenue Predictions ‘Way Off’ IULIA GHEORGHIU | JUNE 19, 2017 Conservation advocates…

*Reuters*: *U.S. threatens Syria, says Assad is planning chemical weapons attack* The White House warned Syrian President Bashar al-Assad on Monday that he and his military would "pay a heavy price" if it conducted a chemical weapons attack and said the United States had reason to believe such preparations were underway. The White House said in a statement released late on Monday the preparations by Syria were similar to those undertaken before an April 4 chemical attack that killed dozens of civilians and prompted U.S. President Donald Trump to order a cruise missile strike on...more »

'It was only a matter of time before they came for the Jews. Last weekend, organizers of Chicago's Dyke March asked three participants carrying Jewish LGBT pride flags—a Star of David embossed over the traditional rainbow—to leave. "It was a flag from my congregation which celebrates my queer, Jewish identity," Laurel Grauer told the Windy City Times. According to the paper, Grauer "lost count of the number of people who harassed her" at the festival. The only other individuals to be treated in such fashion were a contingent of Christian anti-gay activists, whom marchers surrounde...more »

*"Revealed: The Exact Date of the Coming Apocalypse"* by Brian Maher "We now have - on some authority, no less - the precise hour of the coming financial collapse. We’ve circled the judgment day on our calendar, in funereal black. We’re hurrying our last will and testament in preparation thereof… arranging our affairs… bending every effort to get right with our almighty maker. When does the terrifying day arrive? Answer anon. But let us first check in on today’s markets, while there’s still time remaining. Stocks don’t seem to realize they go on borrowed time. The Dow was up 15 poi...more »

The Morehouse College Board of Trustees has appointed alumnus Harold Martin Jr. as interim president. Martin takes on the day-to-day leadership of the college following the death of Interim President William J. Taggart earlier this month. “While these circumstances are certainly unprecedented, I am honored to step into the role of Interim President of Morehouse […]

University of North Carolina System President Margaret Spellings tapped Dr. Johnson Akinleye — who had been serving as interim chancellor of N.C. Central University — to lead the public historically Black institution located in Durham, N.C.

Loyal Allen Jr. is on a mission to make Highline College more accessible to residents all across the Northwest coast, even though it’s already considered to be one of the most diverse community colleges in the state of Washington.

*Soldiers Assist* Ukrainian soldiers assigned to the 1st Airmobile Battalion, 79th Air Assault Brigade adjust a mortar’s trajectory during a live-fire exercise at the Yavoriv Combat Training Center at the International Peacekeeping and Security Center, near Yavoriv, Ukraine, June 16, 2017. Yavoriv CTC staff, along with mentors from the Oklahoma Army National Guard's 45th Infantry Brigade Combat Team, led the training for soldiers from the 1-79th during the battalion's rotation through the Yavoriv CTC. The 45th is deployed to Ukraine as part of the Joint Multinational Training Group-...more »

*Washington Free Beacon*: *Anti-Trump Leak Campaign Damaging U.S. and Allied Operations* *U.S. official: Leaks of classified info by former Obama officials endanger American security operations.* A new wave of leaks targeting the Trump administration has actively endangered ongoing intelligence and military operations being conducted by the United States and its allies, sparking anger and concern inside and outside the White House, according to multiple conversations with senior U.S. officials intimately familiar with the situation. The classified leaks, which are being handed to...more »

Veteran US investigative reporter Seymour Hersh has exposed Khan Sheikhoun chemical attack as totally phoney, a fact known at the time by the entire US defence and national security bureaucracy but ignored by President Trump himself. The post EXPOSED: phoney Khan Sheikhoun chemical attack never happened appeared first on The Duran.

Then national security adviser General Michael Flynn delivers a statement daily briefing at the White House in Washington U.S., February 1, 2017. REUTERS/Carlos Barria *John Solomon and Sara Carter, CRICA*: *Did the FBI retaliate against Michael Flynn by launching Russia probe?* *Secret memos show Trump adviser roiled bureau by intervening in agent’s discrimination case before he was targeted in Russia case.* The FBI launched a criminal probe against former Trump National Security Adviser Michael Flynn two years after the retired Army general roiled the bureau’s leadership by inte...more »

I've posted quite a bit in the past about the various devices TEPCO drops into Fukushima Daiichi unit 1 (e.g., see a clear view of device here and discussion here). The device being used today in Unit 1 is deployed by TEPCO when atmospheric emissions start looking worse, as they have the last few days. You can see the crane dropping the device in unit 1 in this screenshot with the TEPCO time stamp of June 27 13:04: The device is a bit clearer in this cropped and enlarged section from the screenshot above. You can see the steam from the device so perhaps it is injecting water,...more »

George Stephanopoulos had two very different Senate Republican opponents of TrumpCare on his show Sunday, Susan Collins (R-ME), who finds the bill cruel and even draconian, and Rand Paul (R-KY), who doesn’t find it nearly draconian or cruel enough. He started with Rand Paul, pointing out to him that his position is at odds even with Señor Trumpanzee, who said the bill that bears his name should “have more heart.” Paul scoffed and ran off in directions unrelated to the debate outside of the one in his own head. Well, you know, the fundamental flaw of Obamacare was that it added re...more »

North Korean ballistic-missile test launch, image released May 2017. (Photo: KCNA/via Reuters) *Richard Weitz, NRO:* *With North Korea Threatening, the U.S. Advances on Missile Defense* *We need to move faster than existing plans call for. * North Korea’s murder of Otto Warmbier is yet another reminder that the United States needs a new approach to deal with the Pyongyang problem. Unfortunately, sanctions, threats, and diplomacy have failed to steer North Korea away from making America its primary nuclear target. In his testimony to the House Armed Services Committee last week, U...more »

DAMASCUS, SYRIA (5:25 A.M.) – On Monday, the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) kicked off a new offensive on the perimeter of the East Ghouta opposition mainland, targeting Islamist insurgents in the large Damascus suburb of Ayn Tarma. Probing rebel-held turf just east of the M5-highway, the SAA’s Republican Guard swept through numerous buildings and reached […] Source: AMN - Al-Masdar News | المصدر نيوز

Israel's bombing of Syrian positions in the Golan Heights is part of a strategy of creating an Al-Qaeda controlled buffer zone as Israel's strategic position deteriorates in light of the pending victory of the Syrian government in the Syrian war. The post The reasons and perils of Israel’s dangerous game in Syria appeared first on The Duran.

Published on Jun 26, 2017 The Russian foreign minister has harshly criticized the US-led coalition in Syria, saying it’s protecting al-Nusra Front terrorists operating in the Arab country. Lavrov said the US appears to have been protecting foreign-backed militants such as Nusra Front from aerial bombardment. During a press conference with his Ethiopian counterpart in […]

Japan on Alert: Residents Told to Seek Shelter or Lie on Ground in Event of North Korea Missile Attack by Danielle Demetriou, 26 June 2017, http://www.telegraph.co.uk/ The Japanese government has created a nationwide television broadcast advising civilians on how to protect themselves in the event of a North Korean missile attack. – The new 30-second government announcement […]

Published on Jun 23, 2017 A mysterious, unseen, planetary object with a mass somewhere between that of Mars and Earth may be lurking in the outer reaches of our solar system, according to new research. Scientists at the University of Arizona’s Lunar and Planetary Laboratory (LPL) put forward evidence that this unknown “planetary mass object” […]

The Jews And The Concentration Camps: A Factual Appraisal by The Red Cross. by http://www.ihr.org/ Excerpts from Chapter 9 & 10 of Did 6 Million Really Die? There is one survey of the Jewish question in Europe during World War Two and the conditions of Germany’s concentration camps which is almost unique in its honesty and […]

“Global Order” Is An Euphemism for Washington’s Hegemony by Paul Craig Roberts, http://www.paulcraigroberts.org/ Colonel Andrew Bacevich, a professor at Boston University, served in Vietnam. His son was killed serving in Afghanistan. He comes from a military family. I know him. He is among the best that our country has produced. – As has occurred before, he has […]

Published on Jun 26, 2017 CNN, the self-described “most trusted name in news,” is on the defensive after being forced to retract an explosive article linking President Donald Trump to Russian bankers. CNN has apologized to the subject of the article, disabled links to the story and admitted it does not “meet editorial standards.” RT […]

Published on Jun 26, 2017 Representative Tulsi Gabbard (D-Hawaii) has introduced legislation that would outlaw US agencies and programs from providing assistance to terrorist organizations. Gabbard said she wants to hold the government to the same standard as its citizens. Investigative journalist Gareth Porter discusses the US involvement in the affairs of terrorists with RT […]

Megyn Kelly Fails To Fact Check Sandy Hook Father’s Contradictory Claim In Alex Jones Hit Piece by ZeroPointNow, http://www.zerohedge.com Content originally published at iBankCoin.com Last Sunday’s exposé of Alex Jones on NBC’s Sunday Night With Megyn Kelly was considered by many to be a tasteless and heavily edited attempt to smear the Infowars host and vocal supporter of Donald Trump. Despite a week of heavy […]

Published on Jun 26, 2017 Most media outlets and politicians often ignore the deadly consequences of US regime change policy, including the rise of Islamic State, according to Representative Tulsi Gabbard. Did Syria attack America or threaten American interests? Clearly NO! So why is America supporting terrorists to overthrow Assad? The people behind this are […]

Worst Crash In Our Lifetime Coming – Jim Rogers by Mark O’Byrne, http://www.goldcore.com/us/ Legendary investor Jim Rogers sat down with Business Insider CEO Henry Blodget on this week’s episode of “The Bottom Line.” Rogers predicts a market crash “later this year or next …. write it down.” Rogers say the crash will rival anything he has seen in his […]

Three CNN Employees ‘Resign’ Over ‘Russia Collusion’ Fake News Retraction by Tyler Durden, http://www.zerohedge.com A few days ago we noted that CNN was forced to retract one of their bombshell ‘Russian collusion’ stories when it was apparently revealed that the whole thing was nothing more than their latest, anonymously-sourced fake news debacle. Like most CNN […]

Today, the Texas Public Policy Foundation released a side-by-side summary comparison of Obamacare repeal and replace legislation. The summary clearly compares similarities and differences between Obamacare, the original U.S. House of Representatives GOP plan, the final U.S. House GOP plan, and the current U.S. Senate leadership draft plan.

By Chip Roy Today, the Congressional Budget Office released a score of the draft Senate healthcare bill showing a continuing increase in premiums over the next two years. The Texas Public Policy Foundation released the following quote from Chip Roy, Director of the Center for Tenth Amendment Action:

Lisa Durden never thought a fiery exchange on a Fox News show would have any impact on her employment as an adjunct professor at Essex County College, an open-access, two-year community college headquartered in Newark, New Jersey.

A recent poll found Nancy Pelosi's favorability at 39 percent – about on par with Trump's REUTERS/Yuri Gripas Democrats in Congress are struggling to keep up a unified front. As the minority party, Democrats have spent the past six months standing by, mostly powerless, as President Donald Trump has made haphazard progress toward dismantling many of former President Barack Obama’s key accomplishments. Last week the party suffered another blow: a bitter defeat in a special election in Georgia’s Sixth Congressional District. That made four special elections – out of four – they have lo...more »

Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a wreath-laying ceremony at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Moscow. AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin U.S. intelligence agencies – 17 of them – agree that evidence shows the Russian government hacked the Democratic National Committee and waged a campaign to influence voters in 2016. Although no evidence of collusion between U.S. citizens and Russia has been proven yet, President Donald Trump and Secretary of State Rex Tillerson’s attempt to improve relations with Russia has been hobbled. The cloud hanging over the White House seems to be growing, wi...more »

AP Photo/Matt Dunham The Grenfell Tower fire in London has triggered questions about how the tragedy could have happened, whether it could happen elsewhere, and what might be learned from it to prevent future disasters. As a professor of fire protection engineering, I know that the answers are not simple, and the fixes not quick. Investigations into what actually happened at Grenfell Tower are still ongoing. While some factors have been identified, completing the picture could take years. As details emerge, though, it may not be easy to translate them to other situations. Building...more »

Japan Self-Defence Forces (JSDF) soldiers hold a drill to mobilise their Patriot Advanced Capability-3 (PAC-3) missile unit *Newsweek: **How To Survive Nuclear War: Japan Warns Citizens About North Korea Attack* Japan is on red-alert in the face of North Korea's repeated missile tests, with ten launches by Pyongyang during 2017 including one in which a Hwasong-12 rocket reached an altitude of more than 1,300 miles and landed in just 200 miles off the Japamese coast. Japan is now readying itself in case of nuclear attack and the government has published advice on how citizens can ...more »

*Dave Majumdar* *Security, * We asked the air force the important questions: how? The United States Air Force is planning to keep the Lockheed Martin F-22A Raptor in service though 2060. To that end, the service is funding a series of upgrades that will keep the powerful fifth-generation air superiority relevant for decades to come. Indeed, the Pentagon’s fiscal year 2018 budget request is a down payment towards that goal. “We plan to retain the F-22 until the 2060 timeframe, meaning a sustained effort is required to counter advancing threats that specifically target its capabi...more »

*Dave Majumdar* *Security, * And it will carry the F-35B. The British Royal Navy aircraft carrier HMS *Queen Elizabeth *(R08) put to sea for the first time earlier today from the Scottish town of Rosyth where she was built for sea trials. The massive 65,000-tonne vessel—which features a four acre flight deck—and her yet to be completed sister ship *Prince of Wales *are the two largest warships ever built by Britain. “Today marks an historic day for the UK as HMS Queen Elizabeth, the nation's future flagship, goes to sea for the first time,” the Royal Navy stated on its Twitter...more »

*Doug Bandow* *Security, Americas* [image: Protesters attend an anti-THAAD proest in Seongju, South Korea, June 14, 2017. Picture taken on June 14, 2017. REUTERS/Kim Hong-Ji] The world is paying attention to the Trump team’s foreign-policy fumbles. It’s a time of trial and tribulation for America’s allies and adversaries alike. Just what is U.S. policy these days? More fundamentally, who is deciding U.S. policy? A presidential transition always creates uncertainty. Even when the Oval Office is passed between members of the same party, approaches and emphases differ. Personal con...more »

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